Bell v. Adams

Conley Bybd, Justice.

Appellants Alvin Bell, Theo Money, John Cage and Walter L. Hinton, Jr., director and board members of the Arkansas Alcohol Beverage Control, appeal from a chancery court decision holding invalid Act 352 of 1939 because a majority of the Senate did not vote in its favor as required by Ark. Const, art. 5 § 22. The only point on appeal is that the chancery court did not have jurisdiction of the subject matter.

In her petition for declaratory judgment appellee, Martha L. Adams, stated that her request to move the location of her liquor permit from the city of Forrest City to a…